Four men, including a former Treasury adviser and senior broker at Deutsche
Bank, appeared for the first time today in court charged with a £3 million
insider trading conspiracy.

Martyn Dodgson, 41, a former Treasury adviser who as a managing director in
Deutsche’s corporate broking team; Andrew Hind, 52, a company director; and
the private traders Iraj Parvizi, 46, and Benjamin Anderson, 68, sat in the
dock at Westminster Magistrates Court and spoke only to confirm their names
and addresses.

The charges stem from a joint operation between the Financial Services
Authority and the Serious Organised Crime Agency that unnerved